LIMERICK RAKE, THE
Created on 25/01/2023Latest update on 26/01/2023
Artist: Robin Roberts
Author: traditional
Label: Tradition
Year: 1959
On lp Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies. Alan Lomax cut a version on her in '51 (for the archive). Namedropping in the lyrics date the origins of this Irish traditional well into the 18th century. Roud #3018.
Covers:
- 1959:
Dominic Behan [who knew it from his mother; '58 recording, out on Collector EP Songs Of The Streets]
- 1965:
- 1967:
Dubliners [vocal: Ciaran Bourke]
- 1970:
- 1972:
- 1976:
- 1989:
- 1999:
- 2002:
Irish Rovers [as The Rake]
